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Verb Tenses
Twelve categories of verbs exist in the future tense, ranging from simple present to future perfect progressive, but only three have a place in academic writing. Those three tenses make up the content of an informational handout that...
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Business English at Work: Verb Tense, Voice and Mood-Verbals
Demonstrate the various tenses of irregular and regular verbs. The verbs be, do, and have are charted out for the present tense, past tense, and past and present participles. Likewise, many regular verbs are conjugated into present,...
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Relative Clauses
Knock, knock. Who's there? To. To who? No! To whom. Knowing when to use who versus whom is just one of the many topics covered on a handout about relative pronouns. Writers discover how to incorporate words such as whose, that, which,...
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What is a Verb?
Verbs are the most exciting words because they describe action. Kids can get excited about verbs too! Once they are provided with a solid description of what they are, how they are used, and what they look like in sentences, verbs will...
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When Is a Noun a Verb? Examining Double Duty Words
The New York Times' Learning Network provides great lessons! This one uses articles from the paper to help readers understand homonyms like mail (verb and noun). It also includes an exercise in reading informational text. Links to the...
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Verb Forms
Targeting some commonly misused verbs, this worksheet could help students avoid language-related errors. While just a short review of verbs, it could be a way to introduce the importance of proper word usage.
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Past Tense Weather Worksheet
What was the weather like yesterday? Using the past tense, describe the weather conditions. Through four different exercises, language learners will review weather-related vocabulary terms and the pretérito indefinido and pretérito...
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Food and Friends Worksheet: Ar Verbs
Review pronouns and the use of the verb gustar in relation to food. Middle schoolers complete a pronoun chart, conjugate the verb gustar in different sentences, and look at other -ar verbs.
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Birthday Verbs
Use this vocabulary development resource as flash cards or with an iPad. Autistic or special needs pupils can review birthday related vocabulary words. Each word is a verb and each associated image shows that verb as it is occurring at a...
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When is a Noun a Verb? Examining Double Duty Words
Act and act, address and address...there are so many words in our dictionary that can function as nouns or verbs. Start this lesson by having your class list as many as they possibly can. When an adequate list presents itself, have your...
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Conversation Pieces: A Verb Tense Activity
Teach your English language learners about conversations by inviting them to participate in a conversation about an interesting object. Through this conversation, learners will naturally use various verb tenses and practice asking and...
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Subject-Verb Agreement: Irregular Verbs
Irregular verbs meet the final frontier in this subject-verb agreement learning exercise! There are 12 sentences here missing an irregular verb which must agree with the subject or subjects. All sentences relate to space and even give...
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Verbs
Review verbs with this resource. The presentation begins with a short exercise in which learners identify the verb in a series of sentences. Then, they discuss the use of verb groups and engage in a related activity. This is a great...
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Present Tense (2)
Learners correct the errors in four sentences related to subject-verb agreement and spelling with the change y to i and add -es rule. A chart with relevant examples makes up the top half of the sheet.
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Language Arts: Bringing Verbs to Life
Kindergarteners create action words collections to use in their own writing projects. After listening to several books, they select action verbs to dramatize and take digital photographs of their acting. Once the photos are printed, they...
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Relative Pronouns
What does a relative pronoun have to agree with in a sentence? If you said the its antecedent, you're right! Read the short explanation and study the examples at the top of the page. Then, decide which verb form matches the relative...
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Present Tense (5)
Your young editors correct errors in eight sentences. Most relate to subject-verb agreement, but a few involve knowing when to change y to i and add -es for third person singular subjects. Contains no reference information.
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Rikki-Tikki Colorful Verbs
Study and practice the vocabulary in Rudyard Kipling's famous story "Rikki-Tikki-Tavi." Pupils underline verbs in a passage from the story, taking special note of vivid or precise verbs. They then write original sentences for five...
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Conditionals: Verb Tense in “If” Clauses
"If you give a mouse a cookie, then he's going to ask for a glass of milk." These iconic words from Laura Numeroff's classic tale offer a great example of conditionals, a topic covered in the handout as part of a larger writing series...
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Verbs
For this verbs worksheet, students read a Shel Silverstein poem and fill in 27 missing verbs. Students are given a word box with the missing verbs.
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Subjunctive in Relative Clauses
Reference guides provide information quickly and easily, so as you begin your unit on the subjunctive, distribute this guide to your learners. The first half provides examples and explanations for using the subjunctive in relative...
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Modals: Can, May and Will Verbs: Present Tense
Cover can, may, will, and shall with this lesson on using modals in the present tense. Starting off with a warm-up activity, the resource includes a text to analyze, examples of modals, and exercises with answers. The language in the...
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Past Tense 1
Nothing says past tense like the Ice Age. Learners fill in the blanks for each of 10 sentences with the proper past tense verb. Each sentence focuses on information related to dinosaurs or Ice Age animals.
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Imperfect -ar Verbs
How well does your class understand the imperfect tense? Included here are 32 multiple choice questions which require the learner to translate the sentences provided and identify the correct English translation from four options. Answers...